we are very blest in virginia. -- blessed in virginia.est leadership in terry mcauliffe. i would like to thank terry for having our backs the entire time. you just heard from two of the best senators in the united states of america, mark warner and tim kaine. incredible leaders. i am so grateful for this opportunity. i am honored you have interested me to serve as your next lieutenant governor. -- you have entrusted me to serve as your next lieutenant governor. >> [cheering] mr. fairfax: thank you. i look forward to fighting for progress. i look forward to making sure ne, noo -- that no o matter what -- they get a shot to rise. i would not be here if it were not for you all. i would like to thank the volunteers and activists who have been behind us from day one. i want to thank my incredible staff. team of peopleng that believed in this vision. i want to thank our great campaign manager, who ran incredible race. >> [cheering] mr. fairfax: i want to thank the chair of our campaign, who was the chair of senator kaine's gubernatorial campaig

>> hello, virginia! what a day in the commonwealth of virginia. about 10 minutes ago i received a gracious call, i wished him well. i thanked him for his service. [crowd chanting ralph] announcer: we're back by popular demand. virginia, we have witnessed yet another democratic sweep today. i want to congratulate my friend, attorney general mark herring on his great re-election. thank you for reelecting mark herring. i also want to thank our friend, the next lieutenant governor of virginia, justin fairfax. what a great team we have here in virginia. you know, it was said that the eyes of the nation are now on the commonwealth. today, virginians have answered and have spoken. virginia has told us to end the divisiveness. hat we will not condone hatred and bigotry and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. i want to let you know that in virginia it's going it take a doctor to heal our differences. to bring unity to our people. i am here to let you know the doctor is in. cheers and applause] and this doctor will be on call for the next

. >> hello, virginia! what a day in the commonwealth of virginia. about 10 minutes ago i received i wished himll, well. i think him for his service. [crowd chanting] ♪ popularr: we're back by demand. yetinia, we have witnessed another democratic sweep today. congratulate my friend, attorney general mark karan on his reelection. thank you for reelecting markarian. k herring. i want to think just didn't fairfax. -- isow, it was said that now the commonwealth. today, virginia's have answered and have spoken. theinia has told us to end divisiveness. that we will not condone hatred and bigotry into and the politics that upon this country apart. [applause] >> i want to let you know that in virginia, it will take time to heal lowered differences. to bring unity to our people. i am here to let you know the doctor is in. [cheers and applause] >> and this doctor will be on call for the next four years. [cheers and applause] wound,eed to close the the divide. bring unity to virginia. whether you voted for me or not,

and more than one million virginia two came out. they were expressing legitimate concerns about the need for more opportunity here in the commonwealth, the need for more creation of good paying, full-time, stable jobs. addressing their concerns about the achievement gap in our public education system and schools, addressing concerns about safety for themselves and their families and businesses. these million voters and their friends and families love our commonwealth, they love our fellow virginians, and they love even those who disagree with them. and i know that they too are rooting for our new governor to succeed, because we all love the commonwealth of virginia and we will continue to root for the commonwealth of virginia to do well and hope our governor is successful in that regard. lastly, i want to say that while disappointed, many of you know my favorite verse is from romans , for in all things we know, for we know in all things, all things work for the good of those who love god and our called to serve according to his purp

bush, won virginia twice. why virginia is so different and so hard for republicans, unless they can be more competitive in the suburbs. this is since 2000. up 72%, voter registration in prince william county. used to be red, now it trends blue. louden county used to be solid red. 132%, the population growth, voter registration growth in just 17 years. the other d.c. suburbs as well, a state that used to be red is blue because of this area right here. but, because it's blue doesn't mean it's not winnable for republicans. so that's why we're going to keep checking the vote count at 4% right now. we have long night of counting. >> we certainly do. we'll stay on top of all of these numbers. erin, there's other important news we're following as well. >> all right, wolf, and of course, as we have that long night of counting the results starting to come in, we're also following breaking news in the russia investigation. at this hour, new information on something very unusual that the president asked his cia director

>>> now at 11:00, history made in virginia. >> the doctor is in. and this doctor will be on call for the next four years! >> in a race that seemed to be tightening, tonight a virtual >> women are leading the tidal wave in the house of delegates, including the first transgender candidate elected in the commonwealth. >>> democrats are celebrating in the commonwealth tonight, holding onto the governor's mansion for four more years. good evening. i'm doreen gentzler. >> it's been one year since donald trump won the white house, and even though they said his win did not impact their vote tonight, ed gillespie gave his concession speech at 9:00 tonight, 20 minutes after trump slammed him on twitter after not, quote, embracing what i stand for. democrats celebrating huge g we have team coverage for you tonight starting in fairfax county with northern virginia bureau chief julie carey. julie? >> reporter: the size and scope of this victory tonight beyond what democrats imagined, and it's northern virginia voters that lifted ralph northam and his ticket to

that's right, virginia voted today. early exit polls show three out of five voters want the confederate shach chews which have been at the heart of the governor's race left standing. all eyes are on that marquee for governor down there between republican ed dplespy and democrat ralph northam. the lt. gov. nbc news characterizing that race for governor as too early to call with the polls closed. democrats are bracing themselves for a comforting victory, where, of course, another devastating defeat. recent polling has shown northam with a slight edge but within the margin of error. gillespie, an aid to george b. push, is trying to help his establishment bonifides. if he wins, he can provide fellow republicans how to campaign in theably of trump. let's get the very latest from the race from our own steve kornacki. steve what do we know? >> well, it was 7:00. the polls closed in new jersey. we were an hour away. as you just showed. we have no actual votes in just yet. what can we show you from the exit polls? let's look at

basically we had to wait to see if northern virginia was going to perform like northern virginia before we could call that race. tonight, what you're seeing is the -- it looks like a bad environment for republicans, but you're not sure if the tactics are going to work. going in it looked like this was going to be a bad environment for them. but the question was, how much were the voters going to punish the republican party in virginia for president trump? i think we got an answer. this is a wipe-out for the democrats tonight. this looks like they're going to sweep all three of those state races and they're going to have a good night on this. right now i think they're going to have a good night. we'll see when the returns are in but this looks like it's going to be a big win for democrats tonight. i think you're going to have a lot of republicans waking up tomorrow morning going, and the debate's going to be, hm, is trump that much of a problem? or was ed gillespie -- the base knew he wasn't really trump. the base knew he wasn't of them. i think that's going to be an interesting debate t

that helps democrats in virginia, the fact that northern virginia is growing. guest: new jersey and virginia voters, you call (202)-748-8003. andcrats, (202)-748-8001 republicans, -- report -- democrats, (202)-748-8000, republicans, (202)-748-8001. >> today, virginia has spoken. today, we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. i want to let you know that in virginia, it is going to take a ,octor to heal our differences to bring unity to our people, and i am here to let you know that the dr. is in. host: give us a snapshot of ralph northam. guest: he is a pediatric neurologist. the washington post did a great line where he ran as a emotional moderate. he is liberal on a bunch of issues but he sounds very comforting and soothing. that was a very conciliatory message, last night, talking about unifying. that is the type of message that wins in a swing state. republicans did polling and some of these culturally diverse -- divisive issues work in their favor but post from, people wanted to hear a more concilia

that in virginia.asy political position to take. >> you know, there is some indication that the politics on guns are beginning to change. i would say that, though, that one's better not framing it as gun control but gun safety. but, you know, over time demographically. so the number of guns in america is continuing to grow. well over 300 million now. but the proportion of households who have guns is steadily dropping. and so there are fewer people who are really passionate about these issues. and even among gunowner, more than 90% favor universal background checks. and so i do think -- and on referendums around the country, we've seen voters approve stricter gun laws. so i do think that's what happening in virginia is emblematic of a broader shift that offers some hope of advances on toward a more sane gun policy. more likely at the state level than at the federal level. >> larry sabato, i want to get your reaction to the speech we just heard, which to think of it as a southern governor's speech has a

new jersey, virginia, everyone had their eyes on virginia. now we have democrat governor-elect in virginia. >> in new jersey, it's not as much of a surprise. i think that's because new jersey is a blue state although they did elect chris christie. there was some question as to whether or not an ex-goldman sachs democrat might have a little jon corzine baggage. and the democrat, phil murphy, was running in new jersey also was a goldman sachs background. there was some question as to whether or not that might drag him down. nothing can drag down the democrat as much as being associated with chris christie zr dragged down the republican in that case. that win in new jersey was announced almost instantly as soon as polls closed, not much of a surprise given that christie is polling at 14% in new jersey. it was a surprise to see things called so quickly in virginia. there's been bad polling in virginia in recent years. in the 2013 governor's race, the polling there understated the republican performance. in 2014, when mark warner was up against ed

. ♪ >> hello virginia.hat a day in the commonwealth of virginia. a few minutes ago i received a gracious call from epilepsy -- gillespie. i wish them well and thank him for his service. >> [chanting] ralph! ralph! [chatter] ♪ lt. governor northam: we are back by popular demand. >> [cheering] lt. governor northam: virginia, we have witnessed another democratic sweep today. i want to congratulate my friend, attorney general mark herring, on his reelection. thank you for reelecting mark herring. i want to thank our friend, justin fairfax. what a great team we have in virginia. it was said that the eyes of the nation are now on the commonwealth. today virginians have answered and have spoken. virgia has told us who ends the divisiveness, that we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. >> [cheering] mr. northam: i want to let you know that in virginia, it is going to take a doctor to heal our differences. to bring unity to our people. and i am here to let y

continuing to win in virginia, ralph northam will be the next governor of virginia. let's go over to briana, she's at the headquarters right now. projection has been made, briana. >> there's a delay here wolfe, it's about to be made and you're going to hear this crowd going wild right now. they were going wild earlier when you asked john king, could gillespie come back from this and he said no. there were a lot of nerves coming back from democrats back in virginia, that's because they thought it would play in favor of gillespie. in the end they felt like it would have had he stuck to an economic message. instead of going into the culture wars and some of positions backed by president trump didn't do gillespie well but they were worried that it could be the reversals. >> briana stand by we're going to get back to you. over to jake and dana. big win. >> new jersey -- which cnn is projecting and that was eight years of a republican in that seat before that. now objectives in a very competitive state there are commonwealth of virginia, cnn projecting the ralph northam, t

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what lessons do they take from virginia? the leadership of the party last night, the congressional leadership. candidates have to lean in on the values. they have to lean in on things that they believe in. they are going to help people's lives. i have always argued every day i talk about building that new virginia economy, our unemployment has gone from 5.4 to 3.7. the second lowest now of any major state in america. a record amount of new jobs, a record amount of investment. that's what voters want. that's what citizens want their elected officials to focus on. we put $1 billion in education, single largest investment in virginia history. they want better schools. they want better jobs, they want better roads. that is the message that democrats need to talk about. now, i also have been the most progressive governor of virginia history. i, as you know, have restored more rights than any governor in the history of the country -- >> they tried to use that against you and ralph northam. >> and it backfired. ralph won by nine po

as virginia.s is a huge commonwealth and there's a huge different mindset when you're talking about people who live in rural southwest virginia compared to northern, it can be two different worlds, mind sets for people >> would you call it a matter of disrupt? are they looking at people in northern virginia in a total different light >> i would say so. i would say the disrupt. distrust, people feel to forgotten about down here, got northern virginia, people out by the coves we're hearingbo big business developments, and i've had a number of people and other reporters have heard people have not been happy with terry mcauliffe of the his office has been putting out statements basically about job creation, unemployment and a lot of people here in southwest virginia say we're not feeling that same level of happiness and success that other parts of virginia are seeing. >> are you expecting a late night >> we are expecting a late might. we're expecting a late night, especially down here, i mean, you kno

yes, we're going to compete in virginia. and we really -- >> women together, a growing minority or a strong minority population and a growing highly educated population with more and more college. we saw that showing up in the numbers. more college grads voting this year than last year. and that's tough. >> but ralph did well. for a democratic candidate among white men, he did well with noncollege educated voters. >> carried white women. >> so he actually -- >> he talks like south africans when it comes to politics. you're not laughing. >> anyway, we do -- it is what it is. >> did you win or lose tonight? >> we did lose tonight. here is how i look at it. we still got a supreme court justice that we got passed. and that's like six or seven governors. >> okay, this year? >> well, it was -- >> back before tonight. you are baghdad bob tonight. to say you guys won. >> i didn't say we won. >> john brabender, thank you for coming on and being the guy in the barrel tonight. and congressman gerry connolly. you predicted the whole thi

in addition to the virginia.rowing ever bluer, you have that gravity also, the president's first term in the white house working against gillespie. he had a lot going againstin hi. he ran i think what people thought was a pretty good race. i don't think they will take a lot away from it. if gillespie somehow pulls it off, then it seems to me that that poses far bigger questions for the democratic party then a gillespie loss would pose for the republicans. >> tucker: they will melt down entirely. if he were to lose this race, i don't know what would happen. brit hume, thank you. >> you bet. >> tucker: the left as always said that the sutherland springs shootings and all shootings show the need to pass new laws restricting gun rights among the population. is that the real lesson here? we have our doubts. we will continue to monitor the latest results from the states of virginia and new jersey tonight with election night, and we are on it. f ♪ do you need the most trusted battery this holiday? maybe not. (screaming)

congressman of virginia. settle this out, seems to me if you look at all the numbers, a walloping victory for the governor, gubernatorial candidate and possibly taking over entire assembly from republicans. >> it was comprehensive win in virginia, no getting around it. if democrats take back the house of representatives, i think it has real implications. mirrors exactly what we have to do, hillary clinton won 17 seats held by republicans who are winning most of those seats tonight. in house of representatives won 23, we need 24. >> just seems to me that when you want to vote against something, you have a few levers and you use every one. they used every one. and the individual delegate rates, 100 of them and 17 as the congressman points out, divisive, where hillary had won, looks like switched parties. >> i would argue it was different. it was good night for the democrats but gillespie lost by nine points, lieutenant governor and attorney general lost by five to six points, what trump lost last year. number o

>> take a look at virginia by the counties. and you just heard ryan nobles talking about the importance of those. see that little bit of blue up there where it says fairfax? all of those areas right there, that's the d.c. suburbs, guys. so much of what is going to be learned by the results last night is that the suburban vote became even more democratic. this is the democratic strong hold of the state, but in each one of those five counties surrounding washington, d.c., ralph northam overperformed what look did a year ago and she won the state by five plus points. so what that shows us is democrats turned out. republican turnout was a little down. enthusiasm, energy is on the democratic side right now, and we didn't just see it in virginia, we saw it across the country in all of these races, and that's clearly a response to one year, mark, of donald trump's presidency. >> david khchalian, thank you s much. joining us now, david gergen. alice stewart, who also is a republican strategy, and symone sanders, who was bernie sanders'

john mccain lost virginia. mitt romney lost virginia. donald trump lost virginia. >> nine? >> we lost by five against hillary clinton? >> nine? >> the point is this. you asked about what happened to this candidate. we already had a tough situation, at a minimum a purple state and another red state. it was uphill for us. the fact of the matter is, i don't think i talked to senator scott this morning, a chat with tim scott. >> south carolina. >> senator. he told me -- i said what do you think? his answer is, you have to embrace the president's agenda. not necessarily his style and his delivery. >> oh! >> i don't like your drift here. >> wait. wait. what ed gillespie did, he is a great guy. he tried to get the middle lane to use the overused cliche to cherry pick some issues he thought would do well with voters and didn't utter the president's name. >> any argument is legitimate i suppose. republican congressman scott taylor representing virginia beach called last night's vote a referendum on president trump and others in his party. >> i think, you know, when you look at the r

the folks in northern virginia wouldn't see it. and those ads were the talk of the town in northern virginia by people who are really appalled by that and really motivated to vote against it. >> peter, let's talk about 2018 and fraud of course because no two candidates or districts or races err like. can democrats get by with the bumper sticker slogan democrats, because we're not republicans, what must they do? and also how do republicans handle this going forward now? trump and trumpism? >> that's a great question. this is a great moment for democrats in a sense that they are feeling pumped, they're feeling victorious, they haven't had a lot of good news in the last year electorally to point to, but it doesn't change the fundamental flaws in their party right now. they've got a big skix, a big skix ideology and partiwise. who's going to take this and define it partiwise we're not trump. it goes in certain ways in a low turnout election. but we've seen in the past by itself it wasn't enough to get hillary clinton elected and it may

, especially southwestern virginia.ot just within but win big to prove he can get the trump voters out. remember during the primaries, he ran against a trump-like candidate. hao was establishment ed to a lot of republican voters in the primary. they have to come out tonight and he has to win these areas, not just win them but by big margins. the key for the democratic candidate, right across the river, the washington suburbs. the biggest area of the states. this is 2013, the last gubernatorial election. a close race, terry mccaauliffe won. ken cuccinelli did fine, but he was not competitive at all in the washington suburbs. go back to the last time republicans won state-wide was bob mcdonnell when he won the governor's race in 2009. notice the difference. see how competitive he is up here? terry mcauliffe ran through the suburbs. bob mcdonnell was competitive. we see it in presidential races as well. if you go to the 2016 race, in a very close national election, hillary clinton won quite comfortably here in the state of

you think about that, virginia isn't really trump country and aroused electorate in virginia will be news for a republican running in the age of trauma. >> tucker: it's hard to see ed gillespie as a trump candidate. i know there are a lot of stories in the last week about how he was running on the trump template, but i think if at gillespie were in the republican party, -- the question for the midterms is what lesson do republicans draw from this? it seems like it could go either way. >> may be. if you look up mainstream republican in the dictionary, or they and cycle beauty, you might find a picture of. gillespie he is very much a preacher of the republican part party. the criticisms i've seen from some on the left that he is a white supremacist are patently ridiculous. but that grew out of the fact that he made confederate statues and his desire to preserve them in place an issue and so on. the ms-13 gang and all of that, social issues perhaps, historical issues, but not the mark of a white supremacist. but i think, when you look at this, this was not a race that figure very well f

the hyper gerrymandering in virginia is not reflective of what virginia really is.that, for me, is one of the major reasons why the new dnc and what we are doing and investing in are so critically important. -- rafe to to rob a talk about our tech investment. we can learn a lot about these races in virginia and new jersey. that is what we are doing. some of the things we are trying in virginia is understanding different ways we can engage with voters and volunteers. for example, we are seeing if we can leverage your email contactless to have a one-on-one conversation to get people out on election day. we have been looking at to try to recruit you if you visit our facebook page. we are trying to figure out the tools and harness the technology ecosystem. there are hundreds of engineers that want to work on this problem. to harness them and focus them on enabling the candidates on the ground. >> can a trudeau from the national journal. hannah: i'm wondering what the new dnc has been doing to reach women in therget first year of its administration. meetingz: we just had

tell everybody at home what they need to watch in virginia tonight. >> basically virginia is two states. which of the best part and put in the west virginia, but what we left behind, you have northern virginia, which is basically a small, very affluent northeastern corridor state. if donald trump lost it by 20 points or something, and then you have the rest of virginia, which is about, i don't know, two-thirds of the vote in the state. a southern state that if you took out northern virginia, donald trump would have won by about a dozen points. now you have a race between the voters of these two states, who can get the turnout going tonight? so we will be looking at that, counties in the far outskirts, those of the swing counties. and we will also be looking for can republicans turn out and less populous world counties like they did for donald trump. >> martha: what you think about at gillespie strategy so far in this race? he distance himself from the president in the early going and as late as today, make america great phone calls were going ou out. >> i'm not sure i would say he dista

the virginia republican party has to reassess what went wrong especially in northern virginia before gearing up for next year's midterm elections. >>> a as a spring board for the future big office. he's only the second african-american elected to statewide office in virginia's history. >>> and democratic incumbent mark herring won a second term as attorney general. he beat john adams 53-47%. the democrats won 16 seats, two more and they take control of the house and that could happen. there are several races still too close to call. the democrats add a lot of diversity to the delegation. two latino women won and a transgender woman won. to learn more about those winners head to the nbc washington app. >>> president trump is in china and in just a few minutes the president and first lady are expected to have dinner with president xi jinping and his wife. his trip like his visit to south korea is expected to on north korea. before the president left south korea, he spoke to that country's national assembly where he returned to the tough talk aimed at the north. >> do not underestimate

won virginia beach yesterday. usually a republican win there. northam won that as well. you had high black turnout, through the roof energy for democrats in the suburbs. gillespie did well in southwest virginia. that trumpism strategy worked for him in trump country but the backlash was bigger. >> think about that. virginia beach, that's a military country right there, surprising to see them go blue. but virginia was just one of several big political story lines that developed last night. and democrats came out on top in almost all of them. let's walk you through. in new jersey, my home state, voters rejected chris christie's lieutenant governor, kim guadagno, electing phil murphy. he won easily, 56% to 43. right here in new york city, mayor bill de blasio was easily elected to a second term. he trounce his closest republican competitor by nearly 40 points. two other notable races in virginia, democrat danica rome won the 13th district becoming the first openly transgender person to be elected to virginia's state

>ñ=yeo/>xé4f virginia. the breaking updates in the virginia governor's race.he latest results online and on fox5dc.com and on our mobile app and tonight at 8, 10, 11 and 11:30. deep breath. let's-on. why does the virginia race matter so much? that's right. many people are asking and many people have their thoughts on it what does it mean for the mid terms and beyond. us. thanks foe much for having us. why is the nation watching and why is this race so important. >> i think there are a couple things. first of all there's some really significant policies if you're in virginia. but if you're somewhere else in the the country there's the question of redistricting. the redistricting and jerry maundering in virginia can control the house of representatives in a couple years and then i think there's a larger question. in some really important ways this election is going to set the stage going forward about whether or the not republicans see this path ofville phiing immigrants and latinos as a way they can win in the swing state or something they can turn away in the

if we win or even come very close in virginia, it does prove that virginia's enemy and that it is possible to knockout tim cane as ed gillespie went further to the right and did hard edged ads more in tune with what i was running earlier this year and the president, his poll numbers increased and that shows what virginia is looking for and that's why we may in fact win tonight. >> charles: corey you in fact were, you can almost argue that gillespie borrowed your template how to run and compete in this and issues like immigration for instance became a hot button issue. why is that and explain how the democrats overreacted particularly from the latino victory fund. >> corey: well look all of virginia is very concerned about illegal immigration. you might not think if that's true because virginia is not a border state but we've got ms13, other illegal alien criminal gangs and they're not just in northern virginia, they're all throughout the state and all along the 81 corridor in western virginia and it is a serious issue that affects not just republicans, but even a ton of independent voters

other races in maryland and virginia tonight. the results for those will scroll at the bottom of your screen. >> turnout was strong for virginia most of the day. how do you get millennials to show up and vote? give them goats. really? a group of organizers set up a petting zoo at virginia tech today. just one rule, no playing with the animals until you've done your civic duty. we've got more political news ahead for you to the. our debra alfarone spent some time with danica roem as the results came rolling in. we'll check in live with her in a few minutes. if you want to read more about the results, the digital team is hard at work now on the wusa9 app. >>> it happens every inning is l day, cars flying down -- single day, cars flying down the road in d.c. and the speed cameras wusa9's kevin caldwell breaks it all down. >> reporter: we've all been there before. you're driving down the road and then you see that flash of doom. you've got yourself a speeding ticket, but you're definitely not alone. we decided to look at the numbers.

>> from virginia. >> virginia? one week later, bobby smith did travel to colorado to pick up the oil from the stanley brothers. >> most of them stop right there. >> reporter: because of the work the mothers did, bobby will not face prosecution for having the oil in virginia, but he is defying federal laws by taking it out of colorado. >> the moms ran the marathon and i got to finish it. thank you so much. >> nice to meet you. nice to meet you, too. >> wow. yes! as far as we have traveled, as much as the moms have done, i hope our prayers and this medication works. ♪ >> reporter: as the sun rises in virginia, it's a new day. after bobby's trip to colorado, haley starts treatments with charlotte's web. >> you ready? >> reporter: there's no guarantee it will work but the smiths believe it's worth a try. >> there it is. taste like brussels sprouts? >> reporter: lisa and bobby are hopeful as they wait to see if it works. jennifer collins is using the thc-a she first tried in colorado and beth and patrick are lowering th

you are in virginia as well.e had this election yesterday and i remember people saying that was a moment when we saw virginia changing. is what we saw last night a continuation of that with a different change entirely? how do you process from a cultural perspective what's going on in virginia? eric: everybody is searching for the signals and what happened last night and virginia to try to apply them and project them out to the midterm congressional elections. before you try to do that, i think it's fair to note that there are deeper structural issues in the virginia republican a party that needs to be addressed. our party has not won statewide since 2009. that is quite a long time, eight years since we have actually won. although there is one exception in recent memory, we are countercyclical. country goes republican in the presence of, we will go democratic and vice versa. all that needs to be taken into account and the fact that donald trump did not win virginia. it was the only southern state to go for hillary

tom, you represented virginia, northern fairfax and northern virginia. your state went big for the democrats, the suburbs went big for the democrats. how nervous do you think your party should be headed into 2018? >> again, it depends where you're sitting. if you're in alabama and running in a special next month, probably not so much. but if you're in one of these suburban districts, it's a real problem. so what you understand -- i mean virginia, virginia is really two one-party states. that map that steve has up there hasn't changed markedly from the hillary clinton map. it's the intensity of voters. what democrats did in the urban cores and suburban cores they came out in record numbers to wipe out the republican ticket and came close to reaching parody in the house of delegates. >> they had the energy that republicans had in 2016. when you look at the race ed gillespie won, and obviously with the caveat that virginia has been leaning towards a democrat and they did not vote for donald trump, but when you look at the race ed gillespie won, what's your

in talking to a congressman tonight from virginia, he said the virginia economy grew at 0.6% last year. either the northam p.r. team did a great job or gillespie did a -- >> i think the democrats won it. ed gillespie did better. we finished our work going through the counties. ed gillespie did better than the republican nominee did four, eight years ago. these are in a lot of key counties. the democrats turned out to vote. they showed up in larger number than the republicans. there's going to be a lot of blame heaped on and gillespie. he ran a successful race in terms of getting the vote year he thought he was going to need. they just got swamped by democratic turnout. >> shannon: congressman, interesting. when i went about this morning, there was a huge crowd. there were clearly people -- people were very motivated. how much do you think of the things factored in like the fact that congress hasn't gotten some big things across the finish line, repealing obamacare, tax reform. do you think it factors in for voters? >> i don't think so. it will be interesting what chris thinks but i thi

you've been studying virginia.oked close, but he went onto win and he won impressively. >> and one of the reasons democrats are celebrating is because of the margin. democrats were expected to win this state, they should win this state. but to win it by a margin like this they're also picking up seats in the house of delegates with a chance to take control, the democrats are very encouraged in the state of virginia. and democrats around the country are very encouraged because of what they see in the state of virginia. and i can say during the reporting, a lot of jitters in the republican party as they look at what happened here. you see ties vote total. ed gillaspie is a little bit short of what bob mcdonald got, a last republican to win statewide. this was not an underperformance by ed gillaspie. but the growth here in virginia is in the suburbs. this is repudiation not only of ed gillaspie but of donald trump in the suburbs of northern virginia. look at this 60% here, 67% here. this is traditionally more of a swi

hyper-gerrymander in virginia is not reflective of what virginia really is. that, for me, is one of the the new dncs why and what we are doing and what we are investing is so critically important. to raff to talkeabout our tech investments that we can learn a lot from these' in new jersey and west virginia and that is what we are doing with some of the experiments. raffe: some of the things we're trying in virginia is what way we can gauge with voters. specifically, we're balancing of we can leverage a male contact lists as a way to have a one-to-one way to communicate. we have been looking at lookrent ways for when you at the facebook page, to try to recruit you to go to a voluntary event for example. we are trying to figure out what are the different tools and harness the echo system, the progressive tech ecosystem. there are hundreds of engineers that want to work on this problem and try to harness folks and enable them to help candidates on the ground. >> hello. national journal. i am wondering what specifically the new dnc has been doing to reach out to

virginia.ere is what we can show you right now. the contest in the garden state between bill murray with no political experience but plenty investment community experience. he earned millions of dollars at goldman sachs. he has a hefty lead over the lieutenant governor kim gaudagno. she has had to deal with the baggage of the christie administration. in virginia, simply too close to call right now. that's the one where republicans think they have the best shot of a pickup. these are the only gubernatorial contests on the map. after the democrats' nail failure to capture close congressional raise. but these are the charms in possible pickups where they can control both legislatures in key states as well as the governorship. they could go from 6 to 8 tonight. adam shapiro is here at the ed gillespie headquarters. reporter: 45% of precincts reporting. northam is leading by 3%. the people here are incredibly optimuopt d optimistic. listen to what ed gillespie said as was going into the polling plac

virginia. he says republican candidate gillespie was crushed by nine points, because he "did not embrace me or what i stand for." even though there's ample evidence that gillespie was crushed because of his embrace of perhaps what the president stands for. but if you asked five different republicans today about the president's impact on last night's races you're going to get five different answers or in cases, non-answers. >> i profoundly disagree with him on his view of what happened in virginia last night. i do think it was a referendum on the president. >> the democratic party in this election was more are energizedn the republican voters. looks to me like. why that is, i don't know. >> a lot of people are saying it's because of the president. >> well, maybe, maybe not. >> how much the president played into it, is just going to be, the pundits will debate that. >> will the president be a drag on his party here? >> i don't know. >> is the president going to be a drag on republicans running ne

but virginia, it's a purple sense, that you go on in 2018, not many states are truly like virginia. are they? >> reporter: no, no, not at all. and you know, this is a state that has been a bell-weather in the sense that it has been trending democratic and so, republicans were kind of guarding for a loss a bit tonight. but, you know, in those highly competitive districts across the country, you know, the dynamics are going to be very different and, for example, the paul ryan funded super-pac is trying to find local issues in all of the races to get voters excited about anything to talk about other than the trump presidency. >> just have to wonder for republicans what last night meant and if we are, as you say, if we are over stating, i guess the importance for the over-all trend. this is just such an abnormalal political cycle overall. >> reporter: yeah, and how will the russian investigation play out? what kind of situation will trump be in next year if members of close -- in his inner circle or his son is in legal jeopardy. it's hard to know howity voters will interpret those signa

elite virginia. he wasike -- particularly interested in how to do these esoteric things. >> there is nothing really special about this stair, it is a latter stair that we see. -- ladder stair that we see. >> you get a much better sense of here in the addict where the conditions -- in the attic more the conditions were like. it is unfinished. it is pretty well built. together,t is joined so it was built by a professional builder, but was left unfinished so there is no she thing on the -- sheathing on the rafters and kind of an interesting point, perhaps, as that it looks like it never had a railing until this railing was put in after 1900. you had to be a little careful up here as well because kids could fall through the stairwell pretty easily. , it is specialized, better finished, more esoteric. this gives you a much better a relatively unfinished and frankly uncomfortable accommodation. >> the hooks above the door over inre, you see there's a lot smoke houses and things, but those are the hooks the

and the virginia exit polls told a fascinating story about what virginia voters actually cared about. 60% said the monument of confederate leaders should be left in place. but crucially, the issue didn't drive their vote. voters cast their ballots because of health care. 39% saying health was the issue that mattered most in their vote. a far greater percentage than chose immigration or abortion. and among virginians who cared most about health care, ralph northam, a democrat who wants to expand medicaid in the state of virginia won by a massive 54-point margin. i'm joined now by senator gary peters of michigan, the only democratic freshman elected during the last midterm election, 2014, when 12 republican freshman were elected and who hails from a state that, as we all know, donald trump won last year to the surprise of many. and senator, from your unique perch in michigan, from the perspective of someone who managed to win a victory in 2014 against the odds with an electorate unfavorable democrats, what's your lesson from last night? >> well, i think the most encouraging lesson that

, which is not what virginia used to be. so i wouldn't read too much into that. i am always -- i'm interested now, though, in why the polls are not any closer than they were. they weren't close a year ago today. everybody thought that race would be much closer than it was. i don't know that the polls measuring the president's performance are any more accurate than the polls predicting these election outcomes and they are way off. i can't quite figure that out. >> well, that's a fair question. there is a lot of study that is going on involving all of these polls. but do you think -- and you know ed gillespie. he did well, relatively well, just barely lost to mark warner for the senate seat in virginia a few years ago. do you think he would have performed better if he ran closer to president trump. invited the president to come in and campaign for him? showed up at various stump speeches? the president was ready apparently to do it, but it didn't happen. >> well, like i said, i'm no expert in virginia and i'm certainly not an

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you're seeing the college degree half of that, the suburbs here in virginia, northern virginia around richmond. you're seeing turnlout that we did not expect. zoom in. this is the d.c. suburbs and go through. ed gillespie, basically the model for ed was this. donald trump got blown out in these suburbs last year by a margin worse than republicans usually do. the gillespie model was to get back to it. a respectable loss. i'll give you an example of what happened. in louden county tonight, gillespie lost this by 20 points. this is worst than trump. how about this? ed gillespie ran for the senate in 2014, he won this county. get back to my 2014 levels here and then get the trump levels in rural virginia but you don't see it any where. take a look in arlington. 80% tonight for ralph northam the democrats. that's more than hillary clinton. she got 76% here. this is an improvement. you're seeing a turnout and you're seeing a level of support here for the democrats that is much more than was expected and extends to look down in virginia. take a look here. this is a place when ed gillespie ra

e68 and 95 in virginia are okay. slow spot northbound 95 near triangle, crash blocking the left lane. live look at the beltway coming up. >> thank you. >>> we're talking about the roads. a will the of you use every day. one person was killed in a crash that shut down part of d.c. 295. accident happening on kenilworth. police reopened the lanes there. >>> it's 5:02 and decision 2017 is in the books. virginians sent a mes their votes. >> just two more sits would give the democrats a majority and that could still happen. several races are too close to call. but what everybody will be talking about today is democrats holding on to the governor's mansion. >> ralph northam beat ed gillespie 54% to 45%. northern virginia turned out big including a 20 point margin in louden county. that was a big battleground. northam is the first doctor to be governor. that is a skill that will help him unite virginians after this bruising race. >> we need to close the wounds that divide and bring unity to virginia. whether you voted for me

he won virginia's 12th district. we'll have more on the elections and you can see all the results right now in the nbc washington app. >>> our top story this morning, president trump is in china right now. it's his third stop in asia and he's making his most significant push on trade right now. overnight he meant with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. he will have a meeting with the business leaders tonight. >>> a deadly crash shut down part of d.c. 295 for several the road is back open. d.c. police say someone crashed on kenilworth avenue near benning road but not -- that's not what caused the crash. >>> a former charles county teacher has been indicted on sex abuse charges involving an underaged student. latoya parker was a teacher at st. charles high school. while she was a teacher parker solicited an underaged student. >>> d.c. city council voted unanimously yesterday to raise the sales tax to 6.5%. >> that amounts to less than a penny but all of it will go to cover metro cost. transportation reporter adam